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I just remembered why I love the United States of America.

I am going to try again to open up the editing side of OPML. It's gotten pretty famous in RSS-land, but people don't know there are editors for OPML, and some which work pretty well with subscription lists, and could be made to work even better. Drummer can run scripts in JavaScript, so users can customize. I'm going to make an effort myself to start using Drummer to edit subscription lists and see what comes up.

Are you sinking your teeth in during Eternal Caturday?

This is the first post I've seen on the IndieWeb that has multiple in-reply-to links. I guess that makes sense. Nice!

Yesterday I watched Peter Van Hardenberg - Local First: the secret master plan. I've come across Peter and Ink & Switch before. It caught my interest then, and it caught my interest now again. This time I saw similarities between the local first concept and IndieWeb. One of the requirements for local first (particularly in the context of collaboration) is the ability to diff different versions of a document and sync changes between different people. In the programming world, we have had ...

Yesterday I was on the WP-Tonic podcast, and my colleague Adrian Laboş did a great summary of the key points, which I’ll share here: AI security audit wave incoming: Expect AI tools to flood WordPress core and the 70,000+ plugin ecosystem with both improvements and newly discovered security vulnerabilities, requiring infrastructure to triage at scale. … Continue reading WordPress, AI, plugins, future of software engineering →

February 13-20, 2026 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Düsseldorf/Germany Thursday, February 19 at 6:00pm DÜSSELDORF, Nordrhein-Westfalen: Xafé im KAP1 Bibliothekscafé Homebrew Website Club (HWC) Düsseldorf is an in-person meeting for ...

Coming up for the next few weeks, the Dan Allosso Book Club will focus on Cesar Hidalgo’s new book, out this month in the United States: Hidalgo, César A. 2026. The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge. New York: Penguin.   The first session will be on Saturday, February 21, 2026, and will recur … Continue reading Book Club: César Hidalgo’s The Infinite Alphabet and the Laws of Knowledge

My website has been hobbling along for about two weeks now. Sadly I’ve either been away or too under the weather to clean things up. Hopefully a bit of work this morning has improved things. We’ll see how stable things are going forward.

Finished reading: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Parts of the future (particularly electricity) were distracting for me because they felt implausible. Still really enjoyed it. Wish I had read it before our actual pandemic. 📚

I am trading blog post titles with James. He gave me a few suggestions for what to write about. I chose the title “A memory from a San Diego sunrise”. My itinerary for October 30, 2020. 9:45pm to 5:45am: Pre-Dawn Patrol Sleep 6:00am to 7:00am Drive to Trestles 7:08am to 7:10am Trestles Sunrise 8:30am to...

From an article in The New Yorker about a bookstore that only sells signed books:

Even before he learned to love to read, Reiss the retail genius recognized what every real reader knows: a book is not just its contents but also, and inseparably, a special kind of object, a portal of sorts between people and places and ideas.

This is a clever technique for a CSS/HTML only way of just-in-time loading of iframes using details and summary.

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I’m still surprised that Mozilla shut down Pocket. Lots of competition in the bookmarking / read-later space, but that’s because it’s such an important complement to a web browser. I think the organization should’ve refocused around 2-3 great web things that work with Firefox.

Good post by Victoria Song at The Verge about distrust of smart glasses:

Meta’s glasses are great because they’re discreet. That discretion is also unnerving because it means they’re perfect monitoring tools. I’ve written this many times, but wearing modern smart glasses often makes me feel like I’m a spy. It doesn’t matter if the Ray-Ban Meta glasses have a privacy indicator light.

I’m curious how Apple (without Meta’s poor reputation on privacy) is going to handle this. Not sure it can be solved. In the future, there might be places that have signs like “take your smart glasses off”.

Got a preview from @vincent of something new coming up for Micro.blog Studio subscribers. Can’t wait to share it. It looks so good. 🎙️

CNN: “Supreme Court rules that Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs are illegal.” A much-needed check on Trump’s power. Next up is the midterms. 🇺🇸

It’s wild to me that we parent our children to fit into society, then get together with our friends and talk about how broken society is. I’ve seen people rail against our broken educational system, then demand their children get straight As in school. I’ve seen people complain about not having any time to themselves and then schedule every minute of their kid’s life.

There is more we can learn from children than they can learn from us.

Mostly we need to support children and let them know that they are loved.

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